There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it. "
Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.
There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.
The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.
The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.
For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.
What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.
I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.
Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment.
The best investment you can make is in yourself.
I'm a shareholder in Microsoft Corp. of some size, and while I don't work for the place anymore, I think a lot about that investment, how - as an outsider - might I add value or not add value? Do I believe that things are headed in a good direction? So I wouldn't say I spend the majority of my time on that, but I spend some time on that as well.
Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.
Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.